Music for little girls of taste and culture

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The 7yrold’s new second-grade teacher is collecting one song from each kid to build a class playlist. Perhaps because it’s what Lady Steed’s been listening to recently, Lil 7 started generating a list of Taylor Swift songs. 

 Lady Steed didn’t think “Bad Blood” was a terrific choice given the song’s destination and was able to get her to consider “Shake It Off” instead.

 (Incidentally, “Shake It Off” is the first Taylor Swift song that managed to crack through my ignorance and make me hear it while it was still new.)

Anyway, when Lil 7 proposed Miley Cirus’s “Party in the U.S.A.” (learned from friends, natch), Lady Steed realized that she might end up choosing a song that other kids in the class would also choose. And who wants to be redundant?

 Ergo, this conversation:

LS: What about something by They Might Be Giants? Do you like any of their songs?

L7: Yes! I like “Whistling in the Dark” and the one about crazy garbage!

LS: . . . Do you mean the one that goes, “I built a little empire out of some crazy garbage called the blood of the exploited working class”?

L7: Yes, I LOVE that song.

Um.

 Lady Steed, in the end, decided to persuade her to do “Whistling in the Dark.”

 Which, honestly, also . . . anyway this was a month ago and no parents have complained yet.

She’s considering “Older Every Day” should there be a second playlist.

 (Update since I originally wrote this—she’s now decided on another TMBG song should there be another list. And it’s much more appropriate.)

 Incidentally, as we have an election coming up, I’ve been meaning to make a music video for “Kiss Me, Son of God” with Trump clips but . . . it’s hard to spend that much time with Trump clips.

And, as you can see, there are no more videos in this post.